Fort Leavenworth

noun

1. a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.

Example Sentences

The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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For now Kara remains at her base in Fort Leavenworth but is prepared to leave with little notice if she has to.

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In 1955, there was an outbreak at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, when I was in the second grade.

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He settled on the outskirts in one of the more conservative enclaves, a community that is home to some of the troops stationed at nearby Fort Leavenworth.

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By the time the first trial of the Salk vaccine began in 1954, the polio outbreak at Fort Leavenworth had gotten so bad that they dropped the placebo from the test and just gave all of us the Salk vaccine shots.

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